Improvement in thread and needle boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HABILVN BABCOCK, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lN THREAD AND NEEDLE BOXES.

Specification forming partI of Letters Patent No. 46,868. dated March 21. 1567 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HxMLix Bancocx, ot" the city, county., and State ot' New York. have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Thread and Needle Boxes for Soldiers und Travelers; and I do hereb)- declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to nialie and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying dra\vings,t'i,uin ing part ot` this specitication, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of .i1-thread and needle box made according to the principles of intvv invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a box which is made with awood'en cover. Fig. 3 is an outside view oi' a box, which has a eirennilerential division, so as to make distinct places for threads of-ditlerent colors or kinds. Fig. 4 is a vertical section ot' a box niade with other nitslitications. Fig. 5 shows a plan view of a box of oval outline. Fig. Gis a plan view of Fig-6. Fig. 'I is a section of the cover seen in Fig. 2, the wax U being removed. Fig. S shows a button.

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This invention consists in the construction of a box to contain threadueedles, wax` pins, buttons, and other articles which are necessary or desirable for travelers and other persons away from honie, and which have hitherto been carried in receptacles called housewivesf needle-books, and similar arrangements.

A represents the box.

.It is niade open at tip, the opening being closed b v tneans ol' a cover like A', fig. 1.', or one like ll, Fig.

1, the latter consisting.r of a pin-cushion, soinetinies called a bachelorf in which pins are secured by pushing them in radial directions into its edges, as seen clearly in Fig. ti. \\`hen the bachelor is used as a cover to the box. it maybe held in place by pins c, passingthrough the sides of the tlange I, as seen in l-`igs.v1 and 2.

The box is made with heads or flanges n and b at its ends, after the style ot' a spool, so that thread or silk can be wound thereon. The space between the tlanges niay bc divided into divisions b v nieans of other flanges,

0, as Seen in 1-`igs.2 and 3, so that different i `kinds and qualities of thread may beput on the saine box. The upper part ot` the flange b is recessed to receive thc bachelor B, or whateverv else is to bc placed therein. The L hollow part or interior ot' the box is intended l -tlange b' and be therebv to contain b uttous ,liooks and eyes {,needles 11.. a thinible, D, wax U, or any other articles which are needed in repairing wearing apparel or similar work. 1 have shown several srch articles within the boxes here represented. 1n Fig. 1 the thinibe is inserted so that its rini will rest on theinner edge of the supported. This enables nie to dispose the needles h around the thinible between its sides and the inner sides ofthe box, and to put a piece of wax in the thitnble. The box is then closed either with a cover like the bachelor B orhke the y wooden cover A.

1t the wax C is not placed in the thitubie or in the bottom of the box, it may be ruuA or pressed into the cover, whose sides are made dovetailed so that they will hold the wax securely.

The buttons niay the box, the needles resting upon thelu and sotne ot' theni passing through the holes of the buttons.

In Pig. 4,1 have shown the box so niadc as to receive the buttons in the upper part resting upon a shoulder therein and thelongcr needles passing through the buttons and so holding tlieui in place. Another shoulder is inadel at the. upper end of the box for the purpose, of receivingr the rilu of the thuible, which in that case forms a cover to the box. A piece of wax, C, uiay bc placed in the thinible, as shown in Fi". i, 1 attach a. string to the cover A vor to the bachelor B to enable one to handleit with facility.

The inoditiwitions here shown embrace or are tounded upon the saine principles ot' coustruction.v Other modifications will suggest themselves to the faucv (iz-judgment ol' those who nxalie or use such articles, but I have notthought it necessary to particularize any l'urther changes than are here shown.

The bachelor for pins may be secured to the bottom ot' the box, as in Fig. 4, when a cover, A', is. used to close the box, or when the thiinble is set over it, as in that figure.

1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letl ters Patent- A thread and needle box for soldiers and travelers, constructed ot" a hollow spool adapt.-v

edl tohavc thread wound upouits exterior and to contain thinible, needles, buttons, 0r other articles, sul istantiallv as above described. Witncssesf IIAMLIE BABUOCK.

M. M. LIVINGSTON, t C. L. TorLrFF.'

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